That girl last night, what was her name??

She regarded them as signs that she was nearing the glen she sought, and she was glad to at last be doing something positive in her unenunciated, undefined struggle with the mountain and its darkling inhabitants.

But I promised Joyce I would mention her name, if at all, only as a last resort.

'' For the last half hour Mary Jane had criss-crossed half the length of the Gardens and, at last, come upon her knight.

But with her hand softly on his cheek for a last moment, she closed the door and he went back down the hall and into his bed excited, expectant, and finally faintly grinning with the feel of her hand against his mouth.

Satisfied at last, and after a few amorous gambits on her part which convinced Delphine that Dandy was capable of learning new arts, she opened the window and called to her liveried driver.

In the last pages of the book Sibylla comes to Rome to seek an audience with the great Pope and to give her confession.

At last her lawyer, Arthur D. Cloud, gave up the case because she turned down three successive settlements he arranged.

Harriet's mouth watered with anticipation when after months of dreaming she sat down at last to her much-craved milk and fresh bread.

It was her job to stand at the foot of the stairs, and, just as the First Lady stepped off the last tread, Mama would straighten out her long train before she marched to the Blue Room to greet her guests with the President.

She had done it last year, and the year before, and the year before that, and she, and her people were dependent upon these cans for food.

The clock you heard strike -- it's really the town clock -- was installed last April by Mrs. Shorter, on her birthday ''.

At last he consented to meet her, and following that brief interview Claire wrote him a yet more remarkable proposal:

Offer her a cup of tea and she would say, `` Why, these cups look just like a set I gave to the Salvation Army last year ''.

It was not as though she noted clearly that her nephews had not been to see her for ten years, not since their last journey eastward to witness their Uncle Izaak being lowered into the rocky soil ; ;

The events of the last quarter of an hour, mysterious to any bird accustomed only to the predictable life of coop and barnyard, had overcome the doctor's hen and she gave out a series of cackly wails, perhaps mourning her nest, but briefly enjoyed.

Betty is 16 years of age and had several wins to her credit last year.

But at long last came a time when I broke away from Mother and her society `` chi-chi '' in order to spend a cosy evening with Viola and her chaperon at her home.

In April 1986, nine-year-old Judit played in her first rated tournament in the U. S., finishing first in the unrated section of the New York Open, winning $ 1, 000.

Susan, 16-years-old, competed in the grandmaster section and had a victory against GM Walter Browne and Sophia, 11-years-old, finished second in her section, but Judit gathered most of the attention in the tournament.

Polgár won the double round-robin tournament of four GMs scoring five points in the six games and winning both her games against Short.

Her result was considered exceptional considering the strength of the tournament, average 2701, and she was praised for her tactical skills in her game against Ivanchuk.

In January 2000, Polgár had, for her, a disappointing result in a tournament in Pamplona, Spain, which was won by Nigel Short.

However, Polgár drew both her games with Kasparov, the first time in her career she had done this under tournament time controls.

In 2003, Polgár scored one of her best results: an undefeated clear second place in the Category 19 Corus chess tournament in Wijk aan Zee, Netherlands, just a half-point behind future World Champion Viswanathan Anand, and a full point ahead of then-world champion Vladimir Kramnik.

She appeared headed for a first place victory in the tournament, but lost her game against compatriot Péter Lékó.

" However, in her game against Veselin Topalov, Polgár pushed the eventual tournament winner and world champion to a seven-hour marathon before succumbing.

Some chess pundits said she was unprepared for the tournament and appeared affected by the fact that she'd played less chess in the last three years to concentrate on her two children.

However, she was still credited with the most beautiful attack of the tournament in her fifth game victory.

Richard first grew closer to her at a tournament held in Berengaria's native Navarre.

Prior to the tournament he meets Natalia Katkov ( Watson ) and he falls in love with her almost immediately.

The female Governor of Osaka from 2000 – 2008, Fusae Ohta, when called upon to present the Governor's Prize to the champion of the annual Osaka tournament, was required to do so on the walkway beside the ring or send a male representative in her place.

Davenport entered the top 20, despite coming into her first tournament that year ranked no.

On clay, Davenport won the tournament in Strasbourg on her first attempt, defeating Kimiko Date in the final.

During the summer, Davenport won the tournament in Los Angeles, defeating Graf for the first time in her career in the semifinals, before defeating Anke Huber in the final.

Davenport began her clay-court season by winning the tournament in Amelia Island, Florida.

At her next tournament in Los Angeles, she lost in the final to Chanda Rubin.

Davenport played her first doubles tournament of the year in Filderstadt in October, where she partnered with Lisa Raymond to win the title.

Davenport returned to the WTA Tour in August, winning her comeback tournament in New Haven without dropping a set.

On February 22, 2006, Davenport became just the eighth woman in WTA history to win 700 singles matches, when she handed out her fourth career " double bagel ", defeating Elena Likhovtseva in the second round of the Dubai tournament.

Davenport attributed the loss to her having resumed training only three weeks prior to the start of the tournament.